Vol. 1 No. 1 (2014)

Articles

• Reduced Length of Stay and Hospital Cost for Unruptured Anterior Circulation Aneurysms Treated with Endovascular Coiling or a Minimally Invasive Thumb-Sized Pterional Craniotomy: Single Center Experience and Nationwide Inpatient Sample Data Analysis 

  Gentian Toshkezi1, Mark R. Villwock1, Sameer Sharma2, Amit Singla1 and Eric M. Deshaies

  14-19

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• Evaluation of the Analgesic Efficacy of Extracorporeal Shock-Wave Therapy in Males with Chronic Heel Spur 

  Paweł Lizis Department of Physiotherapy, Holy Cross University, Kielce, Poland

  12-14

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• Intraoperative Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve Monitoring in Head and Neck Surgeries – an Indian Perspective 

  Neepa Gopinath Vellimuttam1, Hemlata Kapoor2 and Sanjiv Badhwar1 1Department of Ent and Head and Neck Surgery, Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital, India; 2Department of Anaesthesia, Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital, India

  39-42

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• Feasibility of the Video-Assisted Thyroid Surgery Under Hypnosis Associated to local Anesthesia 

  Michel Mourad1, Christine Watremez2, Antoine Buemi1, Flora Musuamba3, Jean-Louis Scholtes2, Damiano Patrono1, Marie-Agnès Docquier2, Tom Darius1 and Fabienne Roelants2

  1-5

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• Effect of Minimally Invasive Surgical Training Center on Laparoscopic Surgery: Observation from Preliminary Results for Primary Stomach GastroIntestinal Stromal Tumor in a Health Care System 

  Yueh-Tsung Lee, Sheng-Lei Yan, Der-Aur Chou, Shin-Wei Huang, Chien-Hua Lin, Yi-Ju Wu, Hsiang-Jen Hou, Min-Chang Hung, Jing-Jim Ou, Chia-Ying Li, Jen-Chang Guo<, Yih-Shyong Lai, Chien-Long Kuo, Hurng-Sheng Wu and Min-Ho Huang1,4,6 Department of Surgery; Department of Internal Medicine; 3Department of Pathology, Chang-Bing Show Chwan Memorial Hospital, Lu-Gang, Chang-Hua, Taiwan; 4Department of Surgery; 5Department of Pathology, Chang-Hua Show Chwan Memorial Hospital, Chang-Hua, Taiwan; 6Asian IRCAD, The Research Institute against Cancer of the Digestive Tract, Asian Institute of TeleSurgery (AITS) in Taiwan

  22-28

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• Management of Cold Injuries 

  P.K. Hota1 and K.J. Singh2 1Mamata Medical College, Khammam (Andhra Pradesh), India; 2Command Hospital, Lucknow (UP), India

  20-25

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• Giant Cell Tumour of Bone: Analysis of 45 Cases from South Eastern Nigeria 

  Cajetan U. Nwadinigwe and Richard C. Ezeh National Orthopaedic Hospital, Enugu, Nigeria

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• The Effect of Platelet Rich Plasma on The Survival of Follicles in Hair Transplantation: An Experimental Study on Rats 

  Cetin Duygu1, Ethem Guneren2, Nur Buyukpinarbasili2 and Oznur Inan3 1Malatya State Hospital, Malatya, Turkey; 2Bezmi Alem Vakif University, Istanbul, Turkey; 3Istanbul Mehmet Akif Ersoy Education and Research Hospital, Turkey

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• Complications Associated with Management of Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage in Patients with Fibromuscular Dysplasia: Case Report and Literature Review 

  Amit Singlaa, Mark R. Villwocka, David Padalinoa, Amar Swarnkarb and Eric M. Deshaiesa aDepartment of Neurosurgery, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, USA; bDepartment of Radiology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, USA

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• Management of a Chronically Infected and Unstable Revision Hip Prosthesis with Total Femur Arthroplasty and Antibiotic Cement – Case Report and Review of the Literature 

  Jennifer A.J. Mutch1,2 and Ben Benoit1 1Department of Orthopedics, Sacré-Coeur Hospital, Montréal, Québec, Canada; 2University of Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada

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• Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Gene Therapy Promotes Nerve Regeneration in a Sciatic Nerve Graft Model in Rats

  T.Holzbach1, R. Miliojcic1, K. Matiasek2, M.A. Konerding3, M. Anton4, A. Feuchtinger5, J. Schlegel6, E. Volkmer1, C. Krug1 and R.E. Giunta1 1Dept. of Hand Surgery, Plastic Surgery, Aesthetic Surgery, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany; 2Institute of Veterinarian Pathology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany; 3Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany; 4Institute of Experimental Oncology, Technische Universität München, Ismaninger Straße 22, Munich, Germany; 5Institute of Pathology, Helmholtz Zentrum, Munich, Germany; 6Department of Neuropathology, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

  29-38

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• Is Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus a Risk Factor for Pancreatic Cancer and is Metformin Able to Prevent this Risk? 

  Raffaele Pezzilli Department of Digestive Diseases and Internal Medicine, Sant’Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, Bologna, Italy

  26-28

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• Pseudo-Obstruction Decompression Using a Heald Anal Stent 

  Guy Fairbairn Nash Department of Surgery, Poole Hospital, Poole, UK

  20-21

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• Osteoblastic Activity and Vascular Development of BMSCs and TCP Constructs In Vivo Evaluated by Bone Scintigraphy 

  Dan Li, Tingliang Wang, Guangdong Zhou and Lian Zhu Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Shanghai 9th People's Hospital, Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, People's Republic of China

  49-55

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